Commonwealth v. Benjamin

Dissenting Opinion by

Hoffman, J.:

Appellant pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny in 1958. He was sentenced to one year’s probation, which term he completed without incident.

In 1969, appellant filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, Act of January 25, 1966, P. L. (1965) 1580, 19 P.S. §1180, alleging that his plea was unlawfully induced. He argues that his conviction “may affect his job opportunities, his future sentences if he again violates the tenets of the Criminal Law, and it affects [appellant] in a multitude of other *226ways.” Because no subsequent sentence was affected by…